A new chapter in medical education and Barbados-Ghana relations was marked at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill on Friday as Ghanaian medical student Fafa Hanson became the first student to complete the university’s Bachelor of Science in Preclinical Sciences before returning home to continue her clinical training.

Hanson received her pin and coat during a ceremony at the Jacqueline Wade Conference Room in the Hilary McDonald Beckles Administration Complex, symbolising the completion of the programme’s preclinical phase and making her the inaugural graduate of the partnership between UWI Cave Hill and the University of Ghana.

Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Dr Damian Cohall, described Hanson as the first of many students expected to benefit from the programme and urged her to embrace technological advances while remaining grounded in the core values of medicine.